On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:52:47AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 08:48:56PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > > From http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xfree86/, I built the > > branches-4.3.0-sid-debian-2003.06.07.tar.gz. This is against > > current debian ppc sid plus todays freetype6 2.1.4-4 package. > > The resulting xfree86 packages, when installed, allow me to > > telnet back into my machine and open a xcalc in the current > > xserver. If I should be trying to see this breakage in some > > other way let me know but everything runs fine here. > > You need to start a ?dm. I've been told that my 4.3.0 packages exhibit > the same breakage (miscompilation). We already know that startx and > running apps works, it's the ?dm stuff that breaks. > > Please read bug reports before you dismiss them. I am tempted to ask the Debian BTS admins to blacklist all of Jack's known addresses. -- G. Branden Robinson | There is no housing shortage in Debian GNU/Linux | Lincoln today -- just a rumor that branden@debian.org | is put about by people who have http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | nowhere to live. -- G. L. Murfin
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